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Originally Posted by George Hayduke  Rarely do I ever one-hand. The risk is too great. It rarely takes longer in the tree to use two hands. The more that you do that the more likely you are to get cut. Russian roulette... |
Again, it must depend on what type of tree you're doing. I have a large hemlock to do soon with hundreds of branches. Figure 200 branches in one tree X 30 seconds a branch extra = lots of time. And that's only one tree. You'd never get any work and or make money here if you roped everything down.
I'm not talking about recklessly swinging the saw out of control either; I've never come close to cutting myself in the last 18 years by cutting branches one-handed.
<edit>And snap cuts don't work here on Douglas-fir or alder - the branches will pop off as soon as you touch the tension wood.</edit>
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